Sweden was right to keep schools open.
4 min readMay 11, 2022
The Nordic country’s controversial decision to keep most schools open has been proven correct.
In March 2020, as countries around the world shuttered their schools, Sweden chose to keep schools open with compulsory attendance for children under 16. There were a variety of reasons for the decision:
“It is not possible to just close schools without knowing where the children are going — for both social, psychological but also infection prevention reasons,” the Public Health…